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Black Carbon: The Most Important Ignored Contributor To Climate Change, Kate Deangelis Jan 2011

Black Carbon: The Most Important Ignored Contributor To Climate Change, Kate Deangelis

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Water, Climate, And Energy Security, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2011

Water, Climate, And Energy Security, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Civil society participation can facilitate sound energy, climate, and water governance. This article analyzes the dynamics of transnational decision-making. Part II discusses sound energy strategy in light of a shrinking water-resources base due to climate change. Part III considers how public participation in international decision-making can sustain trust in governments and strengthen the legitimacy of legal decisions. Part IV concludes that process and outcome are both integral to addressing water, climate, and energy challenges.

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The Cancún Climate Conference, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2011

The Cancún Climate Conference, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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Innovation Cooperation: Energy Biosciences And Law, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2011

Innovation Cooperation: Energy Biosciences And Law, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article analyzes the development and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies that can address climate change. Climate change poses catastrophic health and security risks on a global scale. Universities, individual innovators, private firms, civil society, governments, and the United Nations can unite in the common goal to address climate change. This Article recommends means by which legal, scientific, engineering, and a host of other public and private actors can bring environmentally sound innovation into widespread use to achieve sustainable development. In particular, universities can facilitate this collaboration by fostering global innovation and diffusion networks.

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Energy Revolution And Disaster Response In The Face Of Climate Change, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2011

Energy Revolution And Disaster Response In The Face Of Climate Change, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of climate change measures. Part II of this article will address emergency preparedness for effective disaster response. Part III will analyze how decision-makers can use adaptive management in a shared local, regional, national, and international cohesive frame- work. Part IV will recommend resilient green building strategies. This article concludes that in the midst of an unprecedented energy revolution, there are meaningful emergency preparedness measures that the international community can facilitate to build resilience in the face of natural and unnatural disasters.

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Food, Law & The Environment: Informational And Structural Changes For A Sustainable Food System, Jason J. Czarnezki Jan 2011

Food, Law & The Environment: Informational And Structural Changes For A Sustainable Food System, Jason J. Czarnezki

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article considers legal, theoretical, and practical steps to a more sustainable food model. Part I discusses the underlying reasons for problems in the current food system, including those manifested in law, and the perceived benefits of creating a new agricultural paradigm. Part II discusses the major agricultural and food programs that have become more common in shaping a different food system model, specifically focusing on direct marketing (for example, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture) and the organic movement as it relates to small farmers. Part III argues that in order to change modern American food consumption, two changes must …

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The Future Of Food Eco-Labeling: Organic, Carbon Footprint, And Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis, Jason J. Czarnezki Jan 2011

The Future Of Food Eco-Labeling: Organic, Carbon Footprint, And Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis, Jason J. Czarnezki

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article discusses public and private efforts to inform consumers about environmentally preferable food choices. Part II describes the environmental consequences of the modern food system. Part III describes existing public and private eco-labeling regimes, including organic labeling, carbon footprint labeling, and country of origin labeling.

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Capturing Individual Harms, Katrina Fischer Kuh Jan 2011

Capturing Individual Harms, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The aggregated lifestyles and behaviors of individuals impose significant environmental harms yet remain largely unregulated. A growing literature recognizes the environmental significance of individual behaviors, critiques the failure of environmental law and policy to capture harms traceable to individual behaviors, and suggests and evaluates strategies for capturing individual harms going forward. This Article contributes to the existing literature by approaching the problem of environmentally significant individual harms through the lens of environmental federalism. Using climate change and individual greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions as an exemplar, the Article illustrates how local information, local governments, and local implementation can enhance policies designed …

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Natural Resource “Conflicts” In The U.S. Southwest, William Snape Jan 2011

Natural Resource “Conflicts” In The U.S. Southwest, William Snape

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION: Environmental laws and the ecosystems they support are under attack. Intermittently since the Reagan administration and increasingly since the 2008 economic collapse, certain politicians and their industry sponsors have inundated the media with angry rhetoric, blaming historic job losses on "overregulation."' Environmental laws are a frequent target of these politicians who often benefit from contributions supplied by the fossil fuel and mining industries. Ignoring the successes of these laws- cleaner air, cleaner water, and recovering imperiled wild species and habitat-they claim that environmental regulations are "job killers." Reflecting the success of these claims, the recent House Fiscal Year 2012 …

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The Future Of Climate Change Litigation After Aep V. Connecticut, Amanda Leiter, Rick Faulk, Eric Lasker, Mike Myers Jan 2011

The Future Of Climate Change Litigation After Aep V. Connecticut, Amanda Leiter, Rick Faulk, Eric Lasker, Mike Myers

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Migratory Connectivity And The Conservation Of Migratory Animals, David Hunter Jan 2011

Migratory Connectivity And The Conservation Of Migratory Animals, David Hunter

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Offsetting And The Consumption Of Social Responsibility, Ezra Rosser Jan 2011

Offsetting And The Consumption Of Social Responsibility, Ezra Rosser

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This Article examines the relationship between individual consumption and consumption-based harms by focusing on the rise in consumption offsetting. Carbon offsets are but the leading edge of a rise in consumer options for offsetting externalities associated with consumption. Moving from examples of quasi offsetting to environmental offsetting and the possibility of poverty offset institutions, I argue that offsetting provides a valuable mechanism for individuals to correct for the harms associated with consumption. This Article makes two major contributions to how we understand the relationship between consumption and social responsibility. First, it identifies an emerging offsetting phenomenon in seemingly discrete market …

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The Curious Case Of Greening In Carbon Markets, William Boyd, James Salzman Jan 2011

The Curious Case Of Greening In Carbon Markets, William Boyd, James Salzman

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Over the last several years, so-called carbon markets have emerged around the world to facilitate trading in greenhouse gas credits. This Article takes a close look at an unexpected and unprecedented development in some of these markets--premium "green" currencies have emerged and, in some cases, displaced standard compliance currencies. Past experiences with other environmental compliance markets, such as the sulfur dioxide and wetlands mitigation markets, suggest the exact opposite should be occurring. Indeed, buyers in such markets should only be interested in buying compliance, not in the underlying environmental integrity of the compliance unit. In some of the compliance carbon …

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Water Law In The United States And Brazil--Climate Change & Two Approaches To Emerging Water Poverty, David N. Cassuto, Romulo S.R. Sampaio Jan 2011

Water Law In The United States And Brazil--Climate Change & Two Approaches To Emerging Water Poverty, David N. Cassuto, Romulo S.R. Sampaio

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas-that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world's fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population present major challenges in management and allocation. The U.S. also faces major water allocation problems resulting from past settlement policies; unsustainable reclamation projects; and also fast-growing domestic, industrial and agricultural demand. In the United States, water has traditionally been perceived as …

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Assisted Migration: A Viable Conservation Strategy To Preserve The Biodiversity Of Threatened Island Nations?, Jessica A. Wentz Jan 2011

Assisted Migration: A Viable Conservation Strategy To Preserve The Biodiversity Of Threatened Island Nations?, Jessica A. Wentz

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Anthropogenic climate change poses a substantial threat to biodiversity. The IPCC estimates that 20-30% of species will face an increased risk of extinction if the average global temperature rises more than 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius. Additional scientific studies indicate that 15-37% of species may become extinct by 2050 due to global warming, based on current emissions trajectories. Domestic and international strategies to manage this threat have traditionally focused on conservation and mitigation. In the last few years, however, policy makers have recognized that near-term climate impacts are inevitable and thus adaptation strategies are required to protect both humans and …

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Domestic Mitigation Of Black Carbon From Diesel Emissions, Hannah Chang Jan 2011

Domestic Mitigation Of Black Carbon From Diesel Emissions, Hannah Chang

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Black carbon, a component of soot and particulate matter, competes closely with methane as the largest anthropogenic contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. Regulation of black carbon has been identified as an affordable, politically feasible, fast-action means to mitigate the warming temperatures caused by climate change. With an emphasis on domestic mitigation, this Article examines how emissions are controlled under the CAA and what EPA, states, and municipalities can do to mitigate black carbon emissions further.

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Shopping For State Constitutions: Unequal Gift Clauses As Obstacles To Optimal State Encouragement Of Carbon Sequestration, Nicholas Houpt Jan 2011

Shopping For State Constitutions: Unequal Gift Clauses As Obstacles To Optimal State Encouragement Of Carbon Sequestration, Nicholas Houpt

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS) could drastically reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants, thereby mitigating climate change. CCS, however, faces a difficult barrier to market entry: liability for the technology’s many long-term risks. States would like to alleviate this long-term liability problem to capture CCS’s social benefits. Some state constitutions, however, have provisions called “gift clauses” that prohibit giving aid to private parties. This Note argues that some state constitutions’ gift clauses prevent indemnification of private CCS developers. As this Note’s fifty state survey shows, other state constitutions allow indemnification. This asymmetry in constitutionally-allowed financial encouragement results in …

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Winter 2011 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law Jan 2011

Winter 2011 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Publications

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Distributed Graduate Seminars: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Studying Land Conservation, Jessica Owley, Adena R. Rissman Jan 2011

Distributed Graduate Seminars: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Studying Land Conservation, Jessica Owley, Adena R. Rissman

Articles

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Does The Supreme Court's Burlington Northern Decision Require Reconsideration Of The Aceto Line Of "Arranger" Liability Cases?, Aaron Gershonowitz Jan 2011

Does The Supreme Court's Burlington Northern Decision Require Reconsideration Of The Aceto Line Of "Arranger" Liability Cases?, Aaron Gershonowitz

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Overcoming The Impasse On Intellectual Property And Climate Change At The Unfccc: A Way Forward, Jerome H. Reichman, Ahmed Abdel Latif, Keith Maskus, Ruth Okediji, Pedro Roffe Jan 2011

Overcoming The Impasse On Intellectual Property And Climate Change At The Unfccc: A Way Forward, Jerome H. Reichman, Ahmed Abdel Latif, Keith Maskus, Ruth Okediji, Pedro Roffe

Faculty Scholarship

The global spotlight is once again focused on the challenges of climate change with the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties kicking off this week (November 28th–December 7th) in Durban, South Africa. With the international community looking to Durban for results, an important opportunity exists to address one of the most contentious – and misunderstood – issues in the climate change debate: the role of intellectual property rights in the production of and access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. The rapid development and diffusion of these technologies is a key component of the …

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What Is The Emperor Wearing? The Secret Lives Of Ecosystem Services, James Salzman Jan 2011

What Is The Emperor Wearing? The Secret Lives Of Ecosystem Services, James Salzman

Faculty Scholarship

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Guarding The Fort, Cook Inlet, Alaska, Erin Sedloff Jan 2011

Guarding The Fort, Cook Inlet, Alaska, Erin Sedloff

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Tufas On The Shores Of Mono Lake, Nadia Kayyali Jan 2011

Tufas On The Shores Of Mono Lake, Nadia Kayyali

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

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Hanging Rock Gold Leaf On Granite Black Feathers, White Bones, William Keener Jan 2011

Hanging Rock Gold Leaf On Granite Black Feathers, White Bones, William Keener

UC Law Environmental Journal

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The Legal Implications Of The Delta Vision Strategic Plan, Elise Torres Jan 2011

The Legal Implications Of The Delta Vision Strategic Plan, Elise Torres

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Roof, Dana Kelly Jan 2011

Roof, Dana Kelly

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Watery Grave: Why International And Domestic Lawmakers Need To Do More To Protect Oceanic Species From Extinction, Brooke Glass-O’Shea Jan 2011

Watery Grave: Why International And Domestic Lawmakers Need To Do More To Protect Oceanic Species From Extinction, Brooke Glass-O’Shea

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Did The U.S. Supreme Court Recognize An Elusive Or Illusive Judicial Taking In Stop The Beach Renourishment?, Derek Leslie Jan 2011

Did The U.S. Supreme Court Recognize An Elusive Or Illusive Judicial Taking In Stop The Beach Renourishment?, Derek Leslie

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

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From Kyoto To Quito: Reassessing Oil Moratorium As An Effective Climate Change Policy From A Property-Based Approach, Patrick Wieland Jan 2011

From Kyoto To Quito: Reassessing Oil Moratorium As An Effective Climate Change Policy From A Property-Based Approach, Patrick Wieland

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

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